8o TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



saplings, the result of the conversion fellings ; and some old 

 crops, having the appearance of high forest, though grown from 

 coppice. They are generally complete, and in good condition. 



System of Management. 



The Forest of Haye has for a long time been treated as 

 coppice-with-standards. During the first half of the last 

 century they commenced to allow certain plots to grow on, with 

 a view to converting them into high forest, and a decree of 

 26th March 1859 divided the forest into one block of high 

 forest and another of coppice. 



In this last block (2883 acres) there were constituted seven 

 working-sections of coppice-with-standards, with a rotation of 

 35 years. 



The high forest block (13,056 acres, including the forest 

 nursery of Bellefontaine) forms eight working-sections subjected to 

 operations having for their object the progressive conversion of 

 the crops into high forest. The rotation was 140 years. This 

 was divided into four periods of 35 years, each working-section 

 being itself divided into four periodic blocks. The progress and 

 the nature of the cuttings had been regulated after the classic 

 method, by regenerating each section within the corresponding 

 period. During the first period they had to regenerate the 

 first periodic block ; to make preparatory fellings in the 

 second periodic block; and to exploit provisionally in coppice- 

 with-standards the third and fourth periodic blocks. 



In 1886 it was recognised that the regeneration of the first 

 periodic block would not be ended within the desired time, and 

 the first period was prolonged by eight years; this expired in 

 the year 1903. 



The condition of the forest was then studied, and the results 

 were sanctioned by a decree of 12th March 1904, and a working- 

 plan approved of on the ist of June following. This new 

 scheme of management maintains the disposition relating to the 

 coppice division. It preserves also, without modification, the 

 division of the high forest section into eight working-sections. 

 But while prescribing the continuation of the treatment of the 

 crops with a view to their conversion into high forest, it makes 

 some changes in the original prescriptions. 



The first, second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh working-sections, 



